Game table



B. G. GISSER GAME TABLE Sept. 8, 1936;

Filed NOV. 5, 1934 R paw S T/ W A M M M.

T ORNEY Patented Sept. 8, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GAME TABLE Benjamin G. Gisser, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application November 3, 1934, Serial No. 751,303 3 Claims. (01. 3 11 -96) This invention relates to tables and more particularly to tables of the kind known as folding card tables wherein the legs are adapted to fold against the underneath surface of the playing surface. 7

One object of the present invention is a table of the character described in which the playing surface or useful surface thereof may be increased at will. To this end, a supplemental playing surface is provided which may form an extension of the normal playing area of the table.

Another object of the invention is to support the supplemental playing surface both with respect to the floor upon which the table stands and also, or in the alternative, with respect to the table proper.

The invention also seeks a folding table of the character described which is practical from the standpoint of ease and cheapness of manufacture and durability and convenience in use.

In carrying the invention into effect, in its preferred embodiment, a card table the upper or playing surface of which is substantially square is provided with the usual legs which fold up against the bottom surface thereof. To this playing surface is removably attached a supplemental playing surface or top preferably identical or at least equal, to which may be attached legs folded against the bottom of the playing surface thereof, provision being made to prevent displacement of the extended or supplemental playing surface with respect to the normal playing surface.

These and other objects of the invention and the means for their attainment will be more apparent from the following detailed specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing illustrating one embodiment by which the invention may be realized, and in which:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing the folding table according to this invention, parts being removed in the interest of clearness;

Figure 2 is a view showing the folding table in extended position; and

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken in the plane indicated by the line 33 of Figure 2 and looking in the direction of the arrows.

The average folding card table, at the present time, comprises a rectangular or square frame formed of the side and end frame members 5 and 6, secured in any convenient manner to form a rectangular frame. Secured to the top of this frame 5 is a table top 1, usually a relatively thin comparatively stiff member, which thereby defines a recess 9 therebeneath between the frame members 5. Within this recess 9 are pivoted, as

at |l,-legs l3 at each corner which fold up within the recess 9 when not in use and extend in perpendicular relation to the plane of the frame, as shown in Figure 1, when the table is unfolded for use. As is usual in tables of this construc- 5 tion, folding braces l5 retain the legs in extended position. Such a table permits substantially no more than four persons sitting around it. There are situations, however, when a larger table is desirable and it is proposed, in accordance with 10 this invention, to incorporate or combine with this table a supplemental table top movable, for instance, from a position in which the table has the area of the single top 1 to a table top of twice that area. Accordingly there is shown in Figure 1 a table top having side and end frame members I1 and I9, respectively, forming a rectangular frame having a top 2| preferably in all respect the same as the table top 5-9 and of exactly the same shape and size. Normally this table top rests upon the table top 5-9 but may be moved to an extended position double the area of the table as shown at the left in Figure 2. The remote side IQ of the supplemental table top is provided at each corner with a leg 23 pivoted as at 25 25 to the frame members |1-l9, and adapted to be moved downwardly at a position perpendicular to the top 2| and held in place by braces I 5 substantially similar to the braces I5 of the table top 1.

Various means may be provided for retaining the adjacent edges of the frame members l9 and 6 together. In the illustrated embodiment, a slide 21, slotted as at 28, is fixed to reciprocate on pins 29 mounted, say, on the underneath surface of the frame member 5 of table 1 and is movable from the retracted position shown in Figure 1 to the extended position beneath the table top [1-2 I, as shown in Figures 2 and 3, as by a knob 29. In this position, the extremity of the slide 21 is in supporting relation with the adjacent edge of the supplemental playing surface whereby both surfaces lie substantially in the same plane. Links 38 pivotally connect the side members 5 of tops 2| and 1, respectively, to limit relative movement thereof.

Various modifications will occur to those skilled in the art in the composition, configuration and disposition of the component elements going to make up the invention as a whole as well as in the selection of means to accomplish the same results, and no limitation is intended by the phraseology of'the foregoing specification except as indicated in the appended claims.

What is claimed is:

1. In a table, a top, a rectangular frame bordering the edge of said top to define a recess therebeneath, legs pivoted within the recess and foldable therein, a supplemental top equal to said first named top, a rectangular frame bordering the edge of said supplemental top to define a recess therebeneath, links pivotally connecting said frames whereby the supplemental top is movable between a position above and in juxtaposition to said first named top to a position in prolongation thereof, legs pivoted within the recess of the supplemental frame remote from the links and foldable therein and slide means carried by the first named frame adapted to be advanced into supporting relation with the supplemental frame.

2. In a table, a top, a supplemental top equal to said first named top, means pivotally connecting said tops whereby the supplemental top is movable'from an operative position upon and in register with the first named top to an operative position in extension thereof in the same plane, folding legs for supporting said tops when in registering position, means carried by one of the tops and coacting with the other top to retain said tops in the same plane and additional folding legs stored between said tops when not in use for supporting the supplemental top when in extended position.

3. In a table, a top, a supplemental top equal to said first named top, means movably connecting said tops whereby the supplemental top is ,movable from an operative position upon and in register with the first named top to an operative position in extension thereof in the same plane, folding legs for supporting said top when in registering position, means to retain said tops in the same plane and additional folding legs stored between said tops when not in use for supporting the supplemental top when in extended position. I BENJAMIN G. GISSER. 

